Pest Control Swanley

Pest Control in Swanley

Swanley is a town in the BR postcode area of north-west Kent, sitting between the M25 and the M20 with good transport links into London. The housing is predominantly post-war, with large estates of semis and terraces built in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, alongside some newer developments. After decades of use, these houses have developed the gaps and wear that pests find useful. Airbrick covers get damaged, gaps open under doors, seals around windows fail and joints where extensions meet the main house separate. Mice use all of these to get inside and we deal with mouse calls across the Swanley estates year-round, with autumn and winter being the busiest period as the cold pushes them indoors.

The green spaces around Swanley include playing fields, allotments and patches of scrubby land between the estates and the motorway corridors. These areas support rats, which use the overgrown margins, drainage channels and the backs of gardens as routes through the area. Properties near the open spaces and allotments see the most activity and unsecured bins, bird feeders and compost heaps in gardens attract them in from the green strips. The railway line and the motorway embankments provide further corridors for rats to travel along. Swanley Park with its lake and woodland is a pleasant feature of the town but it also supports wildlife that includes grey squirrels and the streets nearest the park see squirrel activity in loft spaces.

Wasp nests are a summer regular across Swanley, turning up in the roof spaces and wall cavities of the post-war housing and in the garden sheds and outbuildings that most properties have. The mix of green spaces and open ground nearby provides the insect life that feeds the colonies.